A well-maintained garden is not as easy to achieve as it sounds. There are many steps all year round that need to be taken to keep your garden looking at its best, and with this comes all of the tools needed to help.

There are all sorts of gardening tools on the market, all varying in use, quality and price. Therefore, sometimes it becomes hard to know what tools are essential to keep a beautiful garden and which ones aren’t really necessary at all.

To help with this, we’ve made our picks for the top 10 must-have tools for your garden that will help you keep it looking its very best.

1. Hose

It may sound like the most obvious of our 10 essential garden tools for your garden shed, but without regular access to a hose (or, indeed, a water supply), your plants will not thrive. In the drier months, having a quality hose can be the difference between a flourishing garden and a dull one. And once you have a hose itself, you’ll want the right attachments! Luckily, our unique easy to use wing clamping hose connectors make watering a simple job, our Qwickhose Starter Set includes a nozzle spray gun, tap connector and a space saving wall mount, keeping everything neat and tidy!

2. Gloves

No matter the weather or the garden size, gardening is a messy hobby! Investing in a good pair of gloves is a must for any keen gardeners to avoid the mess and dirt and protect your skin from harsh chemicals, sharp branches, thorns and insects. These sturdy gardening gloves found on Amazon are a great example of the best durable material to work with.

3. Rake

As the colder months draw in, having a rake in your shed is now as important of a time as ever. Getting rid of the debris from falling leaves and branches is the key to a tidy and well-kept-looking garden, so a high-quality rake is a must.

A garden rake sweeping up orange autumnal leaves

4. Trowel

A trowel undoubtedly is one of the 10 essential garden tools you must have in your shed if you regularly plant your own small flowers and vegetables. Great for getting stuck in and digging up soil in smaller plots, having a trowel at hand is a must when digging around for space to put new plants in or for getting soil in the proper condition.

5. Shears

Many plants, if not all, thrive from regular maintenance and need to be trimmed often to encourage new foliage to grow and maintain overall plant health. A good pair of sharp, precise shears are the perfect tool for small shrubs and bushes to keep them neat and tidy and ensure the plant is healthy and has a long lifespan. We particularly like these wooden handled shears, suitable for any gardening project you have going on.

6. Wheelbarrow

Like gardening gloves, wheelbarrows are necessary around the garden when doing bigger projects that involve a lot of tidying up. Although larger than any other tools on this list, any keen gardener knows that having a wheelbarrow makes life a lot easier when disposing of old garden debris or transporting heavy items.

A wheelbarrow full of leaves, twigs and bracken

7. Hoe

A hoe is the ultimate weed killer tool to have handy when you are tidying up your plant beds. It is the perfect tool for this as it gets deep down into the roots of any unwanted things that are growing, cutting them off at the source to ensure that they don’t grow back. This hoe sold by B&Q is the perfect size for getting stubborn weeds out of your plant beds.

8. Axe

For the more heavy-handed gardening tasks, an axe is a must for chopping down trees; and then after chopping up wood that can be used throughout the garden for a bonfire or kindling.

9. Pruning Saw

The penultimate entry in our 10 must have tools for your garden, a pruning saw essentially offers what a pair of shears do, but on a larger scale. If big branches need to be cut off, this will take more than a pair of shears to manage, but not as much as an axe, making a pruning saw the perfect middle-ground solution for tidying up your trees.

10. Plant pots

The final of our 10 recommended garden tools every gardener should have, is a good stack of plant pots in different shapes and sizes. As plant pots are the stepping stone between growing a plant from seeds and planting them in the ground, having sturdy pots that can support all different sizes of plants is an excellent addition to any shed.

Does your garden need a special tool to help keep all of your plants healthy all year round?

Our Qwickhose Starter Kit gives you everything you need to keep your garden beautifully watered, from the biting winter right the way through to the scorching hot summer!